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Monday, November 12, 2012

Cities of the Dead by Jason Phillip Reeser

Ghosts, devils, grave-robbers, killers, lovers, pirates, and dead
Rock-and-Rollers. These are only some of the inhabitants of Jason
Phillip Reeser's short story collection Cities of the Dead. Each of
these thirteen stories is set in one of the many above-ground cemeteries
in New Orleans, where the dead refuse to be buried. Not every story
has a ghost, but every story is haunted by the inevitable ghosts that
shadow and terrorize our darkest corners: regret, guilt, fear,
obsession, despair, failure, and loneliness.